Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2024

Casamance Creole

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Casamance Creole (CC), usually called kriyol by its speakers, is an Afro-Portuguese language traditionally spoken in the Senegalese province of Lower Casamance, most specifically in the city of Ziguinchor (mainly in the districts of Santhiaba, Boucotte-Korentas, Boudody, Escale, Goumel, Kandé, Cobitène, and Néma) and in several surrounding villages: (i) to the east, Boutout, Djifanghor, Niaguis, Fanda, Agnack, Sindone, Adéane, and Koundioundou; (ii) to the west, Brin, Djibélor, and Djibonker; (iii) to the south, Bourofaye and Mpak; and (iv) to the north, Tobor. CC is a member of the Upper Guinea Portuguese Creoles (UGPCs), i.e. a family of genetically related Portuguese-based creoles spoken in West Africa and in the Caribbean. More specifically, CC belongs to the Continental branch of the UGPCs, together with Guinea-Bissau Creole (GBC), and several other extinct varieties which were probably once spoken along the coast of Senegambia, especially in Joal and possibly also in Rufisque and Saly-Portudal. In the absence of any accurate sociolinguistic studies, it is difficult to give a precise figure of the number of CC speakers. However, a reasonable estimate for 2016 seems to be ca. 10,000 native speakers (none of whom are monolingual), and at least an additional 10,000 L2 speakers. An important number of those speakers now live outside the traditional linguistic area of the language, many of them having settled in the conurbation of Dakar or in other large Northern Senegalese cities (in particular Thiès).
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hal-03101167 , version 1 (04-01-2025)

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Nicolas Quint, Noël-Bernard Biagui,, Joseph Jean François Nunez. Casamance Creole. Friederike Lüpke. Oxford guide to the world's languages: Atlantic, 131-152, Oxford University Press, 2024, 9780198736516. ⟨hal-03101167⟩
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